10 WWE Superstars That Should Consider Retirement In 2018

8. Booker T

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Over-analysing WWE can make one's head spin - if it's not already 'on a swivel'. The curious idiom seems to be the latest mandatory phrase wrestlers and announcers alike are required to shoehorn in to just about anything they're discussing that day, but the lame phrases are still easier to listen to than Booker T's absolutely inane and increasingly insane prattle.

In 2017 alone, he heeled and babyfaced on Jason Jordan, Corey Graves and Titus O'Neil with inexplicable elasticity, whilst confusing Graves and fellow announce partner Michael Cole to the point of near-rage with his bizarre observations.

It's possible that the unpredictability suits the notoriously weird Vince McMahon as he continues to produce the three from behind the curtain, but the former Harlem Heat star could surely find better things to do with his time than talk himself or his colleagues into nervous breakdown for three hours every Monday.

Chris Nowinski should at least get on the phone - there'd be few living exhibits with as much fresh evidence for retrospective brain damage from a career in the ring as 'The Book'.

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